[C19fan]

An Imperial City without the Imperial Splendor. I drive up I-95 to visit the DC area now and then. You can smell the money splashing around in the place.

[bigbob]

Thanks to us.

[MMaschin]

Senator Byrd once famously tried to move the CIA to West Virginia. At the time, I decried it as pure corruption, but now I'm thinking he may have been onto something.

We need to start moving federal agencies out of the corruption of the beltway.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Maybe I’m ignorant, but what’s going on? Not everyone is a highly paid bureaucrat in the Washington DC area. Not everyone even works for the government. Are there that many lobbyists and attorneys who do government related work, and get the big bucks for doing so?

[RegulatorCountry]

[Gay State Conservative]

A few years ago the figure I saw was that four of the five richest,and that seven of the ten richest,counties in the country were suburbs of DC.

So today it's five of five...I wonder how the second five stack up.

Add to these figures the fact that DC routinely goes 90%-10% for the Rat Presidential candidate and that MD and VA are now reliably Rat it's easy to reach a *very* important fact about this country.

[dblshot]

Hunger Games!

[PGR88]

Fed.gov spends $4 Trillion per year, and all of it passes through the imperial city.

[DesertRhino]

Fascism. This is the government business partnership Mussolini loved so much.

[Political Junkie Too]

Meanwhile, the plebeians in DC are complaining that they're being outbid to use the toll roads.

DC-area drivers blast I-66 tolling system as fees hit $40 mark

All that wealth has to go somewhere.

-PJ

[antidisestablishment]

“The Census Bureau treats independents cities—such as Falls Church City, Va., and Fairfax City, Va.—as counties, which is why they are included on the list.”

This skews the entire dataset. It makes no sense to include cities in a county calculation. Not that DC isn’t sucking wealth from everywhere else; but these rankings are completely invalid.

[machman]

I visited the DC area in the 80s, didn’t stand out as wealthy. My daughter moved to Bethesda MD about 2013 and then across the river in Northern Virginia. When we visit, the money there is now rediculous. There has never been a “downturn” in the imperial city’s economy in the past 30-40 years.

[W.Lee]

I am a fourth generation Loudoun resident, and I am heart broken over what has happened here since the carpetbagger invasion. Fire fighters, law enforcement, school teachers.....none can afford to live here where they work. There was a concerted effort in the ‘70s and ‘80s to change Loudoun County from a rural farming county into a suburban high tech one, like luring the I.T. build-up in the Rt.28 corridor. I believe there is only one working dairy farm left. And now that a Metro stop is being built near Dulles, that should finish things off. I’m beginning to understand how my ancestors the Creek felt.

[DiogenesLamp]

Ping.

[fella]

Government grifting pays very very well.

[fella]

Falls Church is not a county. It’s a small city in Fairfax County.